Family history in the Middle East : household, property, and gender /
Beshara Doumani, editor.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
- xii, 341 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-327) and index.
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation. List of Tables and Figures. 1. Introduction / Beshara Doumani -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo / Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households / Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family / Mary Ann Fay -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations / Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy, Richard Saumarez Smith -- 7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran / Erika Friedl -- 8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12 "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater.